Python Wildcards

[oreli]

So first off I can't express to you all how rookie I am at scripting. I have been an artist for a while and I wanted to get inito some light scripting to help me on my day to day. So here is my first question.

Say I wanted to setAttr for say Translate X = 5 for evey light in my scene. I figure I need to create a list from a selection.... no? But I am having trouble with the syntax.

cmds.select ("spotLight")
cmds.ls(selection=True)

lights = cmds.ls(selection=True)
print light

## This is where I get tripped up.

for count in range(len(lights)):
cmds.setAttr ('?.translateX', 5)

Also it looks like both the DAG and Shape are selected. Will this mess anything up?

Any suggestions would rock!

[oreli]

Ok so I figured this out.

cmds.setAttr(light[count] + ".translateX", 5)

But having the shape node selected as well did mess this program up. Does anyone know of a way to lock this down to just select the DAG node.

selectType?

[oreli]

So I figured out the

cmds.select ("Shape", d=True)

is there a more elegant way?

[joojaa]

Dont work on selections work on querries.

CODE
import maya.cmds as cmds

list=cmds.ls(lights=True)
list=cmds.listRelatives(list,parent=True)
for item in list:
  cmds.setAttr(item+'.translateX',5)